Creating and restoring partitons with partimage

Our idea

• Use partimage to run a command which will create and or restore a image of a local partition on a different local partition
•  Move this process to be stored on a local server and accessible for many PCs in one room

Benefits of using partimage

Can easily restore images on client computers locally or from a server, which could reverse damage caused by viruses if properly executed

Run Debian Rescue - a system which is preinstalled on our computers and has got partimage installed

Login into the Shell

Execute the following to create a new Image

partimage -dob -z1 save /dev/<partition> <imagename>

-z = compression from 0 to 2

-d = Don't ask for any description of the image file

-o = overwrite existing files without confirmation

-b = Batch Mode - GUI won't wait for user interaction

=(e.g. hda1) 

=(e.g. winxp_lynx)

Restoring an image of a local partition on a different local partition

Execute the following command

partimage -db restore /dev/ <imagename>